NARROWED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does narrowed mean? 

• NARROWED (adjective)
  The adjective NARROWED has 2 senses:

1. reduced in size as by squeezing together

2. made narrow; limited in breadth

  Familiarity information: NARROWED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NARROWED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reduced in size as by squeezing together

Context example:

his narrowed eyes

Similar:

narrow (not wide)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Made narrow; limited in breadth

Context example:

a narrowed view of the world

Similar:

constricted (drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically)

 Context examples 

If a blood clot sticks in the narrowed arteries, blood can't reach your brain.

(Carotid Artery Disease, NIH)

Our inquiry has already narrowed down to that.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down considerably.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It narrowed rapidly, however, and after two more days' steaming we reached an Indian village, where the Professor insisted that we should land, and that the Esmeralda should be sent back to Manaos.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know how he has narrowed the circle of his sympathies and duties, in the concentration of his whole mind upon me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A technique in which a hollow, flexible tube is used to drain body fluids or to introduce fluids into the body, or to examine or widen a narrowed vein or artery.

(Catheterization, NCI Thesaurus)

A diffuse swelling of the scalp in a newborn, usually caused by the trauma of the scalp pushing through a narrowed cervix during birth.

(Caput Succedaneum, NCI Thesaurus)

CAD happens when the arteries that supply blood to heart muscle become hardened and narrowed.

(Coronary Artery Disease, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The road narrowed down at the point, so that it was obvious that the two carriages abreast could not possibly get over.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A chronic disease in which the bronchial airways in the lungs become narrowed and swollen, making it difficult to breathe.

(Asthma, NCI Dictionary)